Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.